That was your whole message.
If there's anything else you think is missing they could just follow the links.
"LOS ANGELES, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Fewer illegal immigrants are entering the United States from Mexico as word gets around of the U.S. economic slowdown and increased enforcement."
Here's what some people said:
From Billkile: "If you didn't mean this to be funny, then it shows a stunning ignorance of conditions in Mexico as it pertains to the average Jose...."
From Doc: "I know you were trying to be cynical, but the fact is, there is no way in this or any other Hell Mexico's economy can ever come close to being any more than a fraction of the US .... even with Mexican oil bringing in new windfall profits for their country and economy."
[Yes, Doc, but that weighs against the trouble and expense of getting here and the pressure of staying here.]
I will admit, though, that it's hard to tell how much of the discouragement is economic and how much of it is the crackdown. There is no such crack-down in California, though.
You may not be doing well but the economy is doing very well. Keep praying for that recession. Misery loves company.
From Larry Kudlow:
At his year-end news conference, Mr. Bush said with optimism that the economy is fundamentally sound, despite the housing downturn and the subprime credit crunch. The very next day, that optimism was reinforced with news of the best consumer spending in two years. The prophets of recessionary doom, such as former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, Republican adviser Martin Feldstein, ex-Democratic Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, and bond-maven Bill Gross have been proven wrong once again.
Calendar year 2007 looks set to produce 3 percent growth in real gross domestic product, nearly 3 percent growth in consumer spending, and more than 3 percent growth in after-tax inflation-adjusted incomes.
Meanwhile, headline inflation (including food and energy) will have run at 2½ percent, with only 2 percent core inflation.
Jobs are rising more than 100,000 monthly and the stock market is set to turn in a respectable year despite enormous headwinds. Low tax rates, modest inflation, and declining interest rates continue to boost Goldilocks, which is still the greatest story never told.
Mr. Bush's optimism is well-earned, in Congress too. He has stopped a lot of bad legislation on higher taxing and spending. He won on S-CHIP (State Children's Health Insurance Program) and the alternative minimum tax. He mostly prevailed on domestic spending. And he got much of what he wanted on war funding without any pullout dates.
And he is not yet finished. In the most dramatic statement of his holiday news conference, Mr. Bush said he will not stand for continuing
congressional proliferation of pork-barrel earmarks.
Am I right or wrong about that? The yearly bail-out of retailers is now a Christmas tradition. I truly think (IMHO) consumers are aware that the economy depends upon them spending, and they believe they can stave off any crisis as long as they do. If it makes their friends and relatives happy and keeps the economy afloat, they'll do it.
The economic growth has been paid for with unsecured debt. Consumer debt climbed 2.5 percent in the 3rd quarter of 07. Also, that debt is leaking a lot of interest. Subtract all that from 3 percent growth-- which is a pale amount, BTW, when the country is "at war."
I'd hate to see what Christmas would look like if people actually began to save money. It's pretty clear that with current wages flat, they can't do that anymore and have a Merry Christmas at the same time.
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Yes, Congress was a disappointment. But why is its approval so low? Ironically, because it didn't do enough to end the war.
Meanwhile, I notice Bush had less than stellar performance on his immigration initiative. He caved on global warming, he gave North Korea exactly what Clinton did, and detectives are still looking for a trace of the Annapolis Summit.
Next we'll find out he's getting blow jobs in the Oval Office
Consumer spending and investing is up. This creates more jobs and wages are certainly not flat. This is the heart of the economy. Debt is about personal responsibility. It has nothing to do with any president or congress.
If Bush is receiving BJs I hope he picked a better looking gal than his predecessor.
I didn't say consumer debt had anything to do with Bush or Congress, but Kudlow wrote about Bush's successes this year, so I had to counter with the failures.
But now that you mentioned it, he has also increased public debt, thus endangering the economy from that angle.
The worse thing about the debt is that it's not going away. It's now a permanent feature in our economy. It's going to stick with us till death, ours or the nation's.
No, this is not a good economy. For those wealthy enough, I hope they've diversified their investments internationally.
BBBWWWWAAAAHHHH!!!!!
where is the context of my comments?
That was your whole message.
If there's anything else you think is missing they could just follow the links.
as well..
1 : the parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/context
you see, I doubt you said "the slowing economy will cause fewer Mexicans to come North".
In typical Zin fashion, you probably interwove something apocolytic and hyperbolic into something that should otherwise have been a simple observation....
THAT sounds like the type od scenario I would have responded to in the manner in which I did.....
but really, if you wanna go the Kreskin route, have at it....
Sorry you're right. I don't have time right now, I'll have to link it tonight.
i would agree if you said a slowing economy would slow the flow of Mexis, housing, ag, and service being the largest employer of said invaders.
my point is you probably stated it in a hysterical context
if not, my bad....
either way,
lets move forward
Reeaally greeaat news! I just love cutting off my nose to spite my face.
I doubt that it's enforcement -- the very idea of enforcement seems to have been abandoned 30+ years ago.
We have to ask ourselves, has the economy slowed in the labor-intensive, low-skilled personal-services, casual labor segments of the economy in which the illegal/undocumented types find employment? If not, then it's enforcement. Or something else we haven't accounted for.
Perhaps it is bands of armed, patriotic, rightfully xenophobic vigilantes doing what our government is both too afraid to do and venally obligated to ignore.
Back when unions used axe handles and baseball bats on “scabs” the administrators of the business were quick to see the folly in not addressing the needs of their employees. Perhaps when thousands of body bags are filled with illegals that our government must then make embarrassing apologies for we might see a positive movement by our government to protect its working class as well as its culture.
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From Doc: "I know you were trying to be cynical, but the fact is, there is no way in this or any other Hell Mexico's economy can ever come close to being any more than a fraction of the US .... even with Mexican oil bringing in new windfall profits for their country and economy."
Twenty years ago the same could have been said about Canada before they discovered oil in that sand..Of course Canada doesn't have the corruption in their Government like Mexico
This is very true for a variety of reasons including the huge labor pool needed just in the San Joaquin Valley, where California grows huge percentages of the worlds food crops, and certainly all throughout Central and Northern California's wine country.
The fact is, the migrant laborer is so ingrained in California's agricultural infrastructure, there would be a significant impact throughout Callifornia, and subsequently, the rest of the country.
Immigration reform is needed, but it is a buffoon's folly to think that deporting them all is going to serve a useful purpose other than jingoistic nationalism.
That's MY take on it.
Peace Out
he was the 1st to say that ruining the economy would be the only thing that would work.
And for much the same reasons as trying to stamp out hooking - y'all say ya don't want any part of it, but that ain't where your money is.
Humans go where resources are - that's the alpha and omega of it.